12 Making a Difference: Dennis Kanyuk
They help hundreds of animals find a home on Long Island each year - but Bobbi and the Strays couldn't complete their mission without the help of dedicated volunteers.
Dennis Kanyuk has been a volunteer at Bobbi and the Strays for over seven years.
The shelter's goal is to rehabilitate animals and get them into forever homes.
The shelter's goal is to rehabilitate animals and get them into forever homes.
"A lot of people say, 'oh I could never do what you're doing, I'd want to take more home. Oh, I can't do what you do, I would cry if I had to put them back in a cage'," says Kanyuk.
He says that if people didn't volunteer at shelters, dogs would sit in cages for 23 hours a day.
Bobbi and the Strays is one of the shelters that visits News 12 Long Island weekly for the Dog Day Fridays segment - with Kanyuk introducing the dogs for the shelter.
This segment was filmed before the coronavirus outbreak.